Revitalizing Legacy Biblical Archaeology Collections The Case of the Oberlin Near East Study Collection

Abstract

Biblical archaeology collections at colleges and universities are typically remnants of an earlier era of collecting and teaching. These collections nonetheless still hunker, dusty and underused, in many university closets today. What larger stories do their histories reveal, and what good are legacy teaching collections now? In this article a recent Oberlin College graduate and one of his college faculty mentors team up to address these questions and offer practical advice for revitalizing legacy biblical archaeology collections, using the Oberlin Near East Study Collection (ONESC) as a case study.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication Date

6-1-2023

Publication Title

Near Eastern Archaeology

Department

Anthropology

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/724786

Language

English

Format

text

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